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,nA-v- wurtývlrr.PRUS.WEDfNESfAY. DEC. 101986 Fo od Children's sti drive is held to help needy Ten thousand flyers have been distributed to alert residents that the Royal LePage real estate office at 601 Dun- das St. W., Whitby, is holding a Christmýas food drive. The flyers were ac- companied by plastic bags which people are asked to filI with non- perishable foods and dropoff a he office.* All food , reived is piaced arot.. 'i a Christmas tree. The flyers are accoim- panied by a form to be filed out by youngsters for a Teddy Ruxpin bear., Three bears will be drawn Dec. 19. The Salvation Army * will distribute the food WHITBY CHILDREN'S story authc to needy families inl Cooper visitedl Colonel F.E. Farem Whitby and Durham Nov. 28. Reglon. Mr is r.mfin HALIBUT $3 *00 HAMBURGERS $1.45 'FRESH COD < $3.00 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK FILET 0F SOLE $3.00 6 a.m. -l10p.m HADDOCK $3.25 Sunday: 10 a.m. 8 pm 701 DUNDAS ST. W., WHITBY 668-6362 orvteller at Farewell scoo ior Carol Gabourie wrell Public Sehool The responses were Qohi" and "Yukl" as cartoonist and ar- tist Carol Gabourie Cooper ex- plained how she drew her toad characters in a 1978 illustrated book. ,II caught a great big one," she told the squeamish Gr. 1 and 2 audience at Colonel J.E. Farewell Public School in Whitby recently ' in describing the make- up of "Solutions to Pollution with the Anti-Pollutes of Donber Creek." '"I would try and draw hini but he'd just keep hopping around. Sol1had to put him in mfy hand." .With those rolîs of skin on his neck, "He looked like a football player, *so I made him that way," she related, adding that toad- touching doesn't give warts. "'Sometimes an artist has to use aIl different ways to arrive at her characters," the Whitby ar- tist said to students. Cooper wrote and illustrated the anti-pollution book for the On- tario Ministry of the Environ- ment, as part of the ministry's Year of the Child program. She has also pubiished "lPiggie's Halloween" and has held exhibitions of her work in various galleries, including four solo shows in Whitby in previous. une of f six, meone author uneof theLuther na. The iClub has he hall be nient also lanizations only the will be the hall to lity. them for ea< you," l'Coopei told students. here will beE someday an( your shows. " Brooklin park hall considered The 1987 feasability the newly formed Lions the inquiry and process the hall with tt study of Brooklin Club. of acquiring funds for Vipond Areni Memorial Park will in- The club asked if a hall would be lengthy Brooklin Lions clude a look at the con- there were funds and may not be suc- asked that ti struction of a large hall available forsa hall and cessful since the provin- free standing. facility at the park. whether the town would ce recently put a $15- The departn .The inquîry about a allot a parcel of land in million ceiling on funds notes that orga large hall in Brooklin the park for the hall. for recreational uses. other than was received by the A repcùrt from the Lions Club Town in September by parks and recreation The study will also required for tl department states that consider incorporating become a reali EXvTRA! EXTRA! For Free Press Carriers We need eager, responsible and hard - working kids. For more information Cali the Distribution Manager. WHITBY rEE -drdPRESS 131 BROCK ST. N., WHITBY 668-6111 rP'.AGo VY LITj rlrLA.=i slies fo a hld o reasowin Eldmnonton i 987. ho i E hasnanedawars8and, sholashipfr er warcolandr pcaintingsovisi school n h araind ho s wrksèhos nh iureatng olwhn imeprmits A pstating shen di ePpemJohn Apailtigs now inthPe aticn i RalIIome. nth aicni 0foer nipluintaso DonberCe,anshe suio as otf juste a feeg Ihe ad htuss we didt sofehing I e'd a bunesi trouble." Her current project uses mnice as characters. "'Whitby Willie" wiIl be a story of the mice in the Whitby train station, "What they do when there are no longer any trains" afid their reaction to the relocation of the old station and transformation into the Whitby Station Gallery. The mice eventually realize that life is great in a gallery. 'rite stories, I, eh and everyci -r, a mother ol ï"Maybe sonr an artist and ai ýd Il attend oi 'itr'az,